Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 107
But when they were come near to the camp, and had hidden themselves in a wood that was hard by, it so happened that for weariness they all fell into a deep sleep.
Who acts: wood, it, friends · What happens: come, hide, be, happen, fall · To what, where: friends, wood, deep sleep
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wood, it, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 camp | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 camp | det |
| 9 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 near | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hidden | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hidden | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | aux |
| 13 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 hidden | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hidden | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 hard | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 wood | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 happened | mark |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 by | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 happened | nsubj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 happened | advmod |
| 25 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hidden | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 fell | mark |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 weariness | case |
| 28 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | obl |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 fell | nsubj |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 they | det |
| 31 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 happened | advcl |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 sleep | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 sleep | det |
| 34 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sleep | amod |
| 35 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 fell | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | friends = friend | near property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide | past · perfect | friends = friend | a wood | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in wood=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a wood | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | friends = friend | into a deep sleep result; for weariness | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=Result |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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